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UPDATE 1: Switching Tactics

LastPass, which initially recommended that its users change their master password, is now singing a different tune after record traffic and the crush users updating their master passwords overloaded the LastPass servers:

"Record traffic, plus a rush of people to make password changes is more than we can currently handle.

If you haven't the vast majority of you will be logged in using 'offline' mode so you can still use LastPass like normal and get back to your day..."

LastPass, through its blog and Twitter feed, has been issuing assurances to users that their data is secure. The company plans on sending emails to individual users to validate/change their individual passwords as the load lightens.

LastPass, a password management application for the internet, has found a traffic "anomaly" within its servers and are asking some of its users to change their master password. According to the company's blog:

"We take a close look at our logs and try to explain every anomaly we see. Tuesday morning we saw a network traffic anomaly for a few minutes from one of our non-critical machines. These happen occasionally, and we typically identify them as an employee or an automated script.

In this case, we couldn't find that root cause. After delving into the anomaly we found a similar but smaller matching traffic anomaly from one of our databases in the opposite direction (more traffic was sent from the database compared to what was received on the server). Because we can't account for this anomaly either, we're going to be paranoid and assume the worst: that the data we stored in the database was somehow accessed..."

While they haven't found any proof of an attack, their main concern is a brute-force hack and therefore do not believe anyone using a strong password (read: non-dictionary, alpha-numeric, with a symbol or two in for good measure) is affected. For the whole post, click here.